Negasso Gidada

Negasso Gidada (8 September 1943-27 April 2019) was President of Ethiopia from 22 August 1995 to 8 October 2001, succeeding Menes Zenawi and preceding Girma Wolde-Giorgis.

Biography
Negasso Gidada was born in Dembidolo, Ethiopia on 8 September 1943, the son of a Protestant minister. He became a history lecturer at Addis Ababa University before joining the Oromo Liberation Front during his studies in Europe, and he became a member of the transitional government of Ethiopia after the overthrow of the Derg government. Negasso served as President of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2001, and he left the EPDRF in June 2001, becoming an independent. He died in Frankfurt, Germany in 2019 at the age of 75.